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Mackey and House Ways and Means Chair Richard A. Voke (D-Chelsea) said the House leadership is currently formulating a tax package to be presented to the floor sometime this week which will include a one-cent increase in the sales tax, raising it from five cents to six cents, an increase in the gasoline tax and increases in "sin" taxes on cigarettes and alcohol...
...Richard A. Voke (D-Chelsea), chair of the House Ways and Means Committee said in a statement this weekend that his committee would not release another tax package and that it was up to Dukakis, who has repeatedly said he supports new taxes, to propose...
Dukakis' statement came in the wake of an announcement by Ways and Means Committee Chair Richard A. Voke (D-Chelsea) that the committee will not develop a replacement for Friday's ill-fated tax bill...
...Voke has insisted that Dukakis take the lead in working toward an agreement, saying legislative quarreling has created a "crisis of confidence...
...People have lost faith in government," Voke said...